Riley and Company *NEW* Stamp Release BLOG HOP!

Welcome friends! 

 I know it's cold outside for most of you so pull up a comfy chair, 

your coffee or tea and hop along with us tonight as you enjoy the first

 NEW STAMP RELEASE of 2014 for Riley and Company Stamps! 

 Head Moose Tanya has simply outdone herself with 60 new Funnybones 

and 10 new Riley/Sophie stamps! 

*Bliss!*

I'll be showing you 3 cards tonight, introducing new stamps and sentiments.

If you are hopping along, you should have arrived from

 Heather's happy blog! 

 If you need to start at the beginning, start at the Riley and Co Blog.

First up, I have a card showingcasing the new Funnybones sentiment

"Fruit salad for dinner" that I've paired with Pointing Midge - already available in the store!

 Inside of the card:

Next up, is new release stamp Meditating Sophie!
This stamp could be used for a variety of cards
and a great way to start of the new year's personal journeys!

 The card inside with a new Funnybones sentiment "Its all good"

 Lastly, I've created a tent card with the new Funnybones
sentiment "Trust me, you can dance." ~ Vodka -
hee hee!
I've paired it with Staying Alive Riley, polyester
light blue suit and all! :)

Card was modified from the original tutorial I found at SCS
for tent cards to lean back a little better,
as you can see here ;)

 

That's it for this stop on the hop!

This new release is OVER THE MOON fantastic!!

From here, you'll hop on over to Michele's marvelous blog!

Before you go, I wanted to let you know about a few specials!


We will be giving away gift certificates to two lucky winners that leave comments on RILEY's blog!

Special #1: Buy the entire unmounted sheet of the new Riley for only $40! (Save $10!) (Offer not available to wholesale customers.) Limit one per customer. Offer ends January 20th.
Special #2: You can also get a set of 3 FREE Funnybones stamps (our choice) during this release by simply placing an order of $25 or more (before tax) in the first 24 hours of the release! (One per customer please.)

Special #3: But wait - there's more! As an added bonus, we are giving EVERYONE FREE SHIPPING from Thursday night at 9 pm CST until Sunday night at midnight CST! Just enter FREESHIP in the coupon code section! 

Happy Hopping!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

WOYWW #241 ~ Riley Sneak #3!

 Happy Wednesday!

This is always a fun day of the week - WOYWW #241,

a fabulous hop around the globe thanks to the uber wonderful Julia!

I hesitated showing my desk today as it is in need a serious

need of cleaning up and organizing! :)

And that's because I've been super busy - as a mom, volunteer,

crafter, etc!

 Alright - here we go!  

See, pretty messy right now!  

The pile of red rubber is the Riley and Company new stamps

that you've been peeking at this week. I'm going through 

paper scraps to use the up and creating cards!

  First up, one of the new Riley and Company stamps

being released is Lipstick Sophie!

I paired her with another new stamp coming out

for a funny take on it, LOL!

  

This is the card inside ~ left blank for now

 

 Next up, using the same scraplings of paper,

I inked up Wondering Midge - already available in the shop,

with one of the new Funnybones stamps

"Wine with Laundry!"

I've often wondered myself - hee hee!

 

  Here's a quick reminder!

 Release Date: Thursday 16th January 2014

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday! You can find them in my sidebar.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday 16th January 10 PM EST, starting on the Riley and Company Blog.
• 60 Funnybones Sentiments and 10 Riley images to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Thursday 16th January10 PM EST.

Thanks for your visit today!

I'll see you tomorrow for another sneak and then the BIG HOP!!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

I'll enter the 1st card into: 
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #74 - Girly
Card Mania #8 - Anything Goes Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
2nd card: Craftycatz - Pink


 

Sophie is skating by ...

... with a Center-Step Hi! :)

Good morning, blogging friends!!  I'm channeling my inner love of snow and wishful holiday thinking with today's card :)  Growing up and falling in love with the snow always make me nostalgic as the seasons change and winter approaches. I grew up in the frozen tundras of Europe where in Fall/Winter, the lakes and ponds froze over and became our skating rinks!  The first time I saw an indoor rink was at 15 when we arrived in North Florida and our host family took us to the skating rink.  I was quite baffled, I must say ... LOL!  

But how fun to make a winter card for the new Riley and Company challenge!  Our challenge this time around is brought to us by Cindy and she asked us to make a Side-Step card.   I LOVED Frances' tutorial on SCS - super easy to follow.  I'm a visual gal - I really need to *see* things as I go, LOL, and made a wee blunder  on my first Side-Step card but I sure can't wait to do this fold again!  I also did the inside of my card - you know I can't resist that :)  I paper pieced her little skating outfit and this is leftover scrap paper from MME.

*Card now edited!  I tweaked it a bit and brought the side panels all the way down ~ when it's folded (production stage, it appears that it will be long enough but when the card is in it's opened state, they are too short!  Just a tip I learned!!* 

We can't wait to see what your Center Step card looks like using your Riley and friends stamps! 

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could be in the running to win free rubber ... One lucky person per challenge will win our Logo Riley image which isn't available for purchase. You will also get the chance to display a winner's button on your blog. So get stamping Riley fans :).

To play create a card using Riley and Company images. 

Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword RILEY2112. We can't wait to see what you create!

Be sure to see what the DT made using the Center Step Fold!

• Cindy Haffner
• Frances Byrne
• Jovita Torres
• Joy Stagg
• Kelly Santi
• Laurie Clout
• Michele L

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly